Remote Desktop Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Remote Desktop
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Remote Desktop skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 474 445
Rank change year-on-year +87 -29 +77
Permanent jobs citing Remote Desktop 130 106 106
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.28% 0.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.70% 2.10% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 98 59 102
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £26,813 £30,000 £26,826
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £31,500 £33,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -5.97% -6.07%
75th Percentile £33,375 £39,375 £43,125
90th Percentile £38,205 £45,400 £51,250
UK median annual salary £30,000 £36,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year -17.81% -1.35% -1.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

Remote Desktop falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 7,651 5,047 5,024
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.24% 13.55% 16.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,898 2,545 4,128
10th Percentile £25,087 £29,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £27,694 £35,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £52,500 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £72,433
UK median annual salary £38,500 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -28.70% +8.00% -4.76%

Remote Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Remote Desktop relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Remote Desktop job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Remote Desktop
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Remote Desktop.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Remote Desktop

Remote Desktop
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Remote Desktop in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Remote Desktop in the UK excluding London

Remote Desktop
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Remote Desktop within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands +46 51 £30,000 -24.05% 3
East Midlands +22 41 £30,000 -3.23% 1
South East +42 21 £29,000 -29.70% 10
South West -1 18 £33,000 +10.00% 1
North of England +25 17 £28,000 -20.00% 4
Northern Ireland - 14 - - 1
West Midlands +14 10 £35,000 -11.39% 2
North West +26 9 £27,000 -16.92% 3
East of England +26 8 £30,000 -20.00% 1
Yorkshire -2 7 £28,000 -34.12%
North East +7 1 - - 1
Scotland +4 1 £40,000 +8.84% 3
Remote Desktop
UK

Remote Desktop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 21 (16.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (9.23%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.31%) IIS
Applications
1 23 (17.69%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (4.62%) NetSuite
2 4 (3.08%) Visualfiles
3 1 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.77%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 65 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 40 (30.77%) SaaS
3 33 (25.38%) Azure
4 29 (22.31%) AWS
5 10 (7.69%) Nutanix
6 8 (6.15%) Entra ID
7 5 (3.85%) Google Workspace
8 4 (3.08%) OneDrive
9 2 (1.54%) Viva Engage
10 1 (0.77%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.77%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.77%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.77%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.77%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 42 (32.31%) DHCP
1 42 (32.31%) DNS
2 29 (22.31%) Firewall
3 26 (20.00%) VPN
4 17 (13.08%) TCP/IP
5 15 (11.54%) LAN
6 13 (10.00%) WAN
7 11 (8.46%) VoIP
8 9 (6.92%) VLAN
9 7 (5.38%) Wireless
10 4 (3.08%) Intranet
10 4 (3.08%) iSCSI
10 4 (3.08%) SAN
11 2 (1.54%) 4G
12 1 (0.77%) Broadband
12 1 (0.77%) IP Telephony
12 1 (0.77%) Mobile Broadband
12 1 (0.77%) PuTTY
12 1 (0.77%) Telnet
12 1 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.38%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.31%) MySQL
2 3 (2.31%) PostgreSQL
General
1 111 (85.38%) Social Skills
2 44 (33.85%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (31.54%) Retail
4 15 (11.54%) French Language
4 15 (11.54%) Swedish Language
5 11 (8.46%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (5.38%) Legal
6 7 (5.38%) Pharmaceutical
6 7 (5.38%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.08%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.31%) Finance
9 2 (1.54%) Back Office
9 2 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.77%) Advertising
10 1 (0.77%) Automotive
10 1 (0.77%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 52 (40.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 50 (38.46%) Analyst
3 32 (24.62%) Support Analyst
4 30 (23.08%) IT Support
5 27 (20.77%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 24 (18.46%) Support Engineer
7 22 (16.92%) Senior
8 17 (13.08%) Service Analyst
9 16 (12.31%) Service Desk Analyst
10 15 (11.54%) Senior Analyst
10 15 (11.54%) Senior Service Desk Analyst
10 15 (11.54%) Support Technician
11 14 (10.77%) Applications Support
11 14 (10.77%) ERP Analyst
11 14 (10.77%) ERP Support
12 13 (10.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
12 13 (10.00%) IT Analyst
12 13 (10.00%) IT Support Analyst
12 13 (10.00%) SaaS Analyst
12 13 (10.00%) Software Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 40 (30.77%) Onboarding
2 16 (12.31%) Driving Licence
3 10 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (7.69%) Public Cloud
4 6 (4.62%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (4.62%) Smartphone
5 4 (3.08%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.31%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.31%) Replication
7 2 (1.54%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.54%) iPad
7 2 (1.54%) iPhone
7 2 (1.54%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.77%) BYOD
8 1 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.77%) EPoS
8 1 (0.77%) iSeries
8 1 (0.77%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 65 (50.00%) Windows
2 46 (35.38%) Windows Server
3 13 (10.00%) Linux
4 4 (3.08%) Windows 10
5 3 (2.31%) Android
5 3 (2.31%) Apple iOS
5 3 (2.31%) Mac OS
5 3 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.31%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.77%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.77%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.77%) Windows 8
6 1 (0.77%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (53.85%) Customer Service
2 67 (51.54%) Mentoring
3 60 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
4 45 (34.62%) Continuous Improvement
4 45 (34.62%) ERP
5 41 (31.54%) CRM
5 41 (31.54%) Logistics
6 40 (30.77%) ITIL
7 39 (30.00%) Analytical Thinking
7 39 (30.00%) Data Privacy
7 39 (30.00%) E-Commerce
7 39 (30.00%) Root Cause Analysis
8 36 (27.69%) ITSM
9 30 (23.08%) Business Continuity
10 15 (11.54%) Disaster Recovery
11 13 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
12 12 (9.23%) Change Management
13 10 (7.69%) High Availability
13 10 (7.69%) Server Management
13 10 (7.69%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (37.69%) SQL
2 39 (30.00%) C#
3 5 (3.85%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.08%) Bash
5 3 (2.31%) Korn
6 2 (1.54%) Python
7 1 (0.77%) C
7 1 (0.77%) VB
7 1 (0.77%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (12.31%) A+ Certification
1 16 (12.31%) Microsoft Certification
2 15 (11.54%) AWS Certification
2 15 (11.54%) MCSE
3 11 (8.46%) Degree
4 9 (6.92%) Security Cleared
5 8 (6.15%) SC Cleared
6 4 (3.08%) CompTIA Security+
6 4 (3.08%) MCP
7 1 (0.77%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.77%) HNC
7 1 (0.77%) HND
7 1 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (25.38%) QA
2 11 (8.46%) SLA
3 4 (3.08%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.08%) NIST
4 1 (0.77%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 60 (46.15%) Active Directory
2 30 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (16.92%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.31%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (2.31%) Docker
5 1 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (6.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (3.85%) SCCM
3 3 (2.31%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.77%) Autotask
4 1 (0.77%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
4 1 (0.77%) WSUS
Vendors
1 66 (50.77%) Microsoft
2 30 (23.08%) VMware
3 16 (12.31%) ServiceNow
4 13 (10.00%) Dell
4 13 (10.00%) Sage
5 10 (7.69%) Dell Compellent
5 10 (7.69%) HP
5 10 (7.69%) Nimble Storage
6 9 (6.92%) Apple
7 7 (5.38%) SonicWALL
8 6 (4.62%) Epicor
8 6 (4.62%) SAP
9 5 (3.85%) Google
10 3 (2.31%) Red Hat
10 3 (2.31%) SolarWinds
10 3 (2.31%) Splunk
11 2 (1.54%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (1.54%) Fortinet
11 2 (1.54%) Intel
11 2 (1.54%) Wyse